Resumen

This study is anchored in the field of interlanguage pragmatics (ITP), and
the approach taken is speech-act based. In particular, our investigation compares Spanish
and Moroccan university learners in the way they perceive analogies, requests and refusals
with a view to shedding light on their pragmatic knowledge and strategy differences. Data
were collected by a Multiple-choice discourse completion tasks questionnaire. Results
show that Spanish and Moroccan speakers performed equally in terms of the apology
speech act, but differed significantly when performing request and refusal speech acts.
They also reveal that the two groups of participants were significantly different in terms
of their indirect distractor choice, but not in their strategy and direct choices. These
findings are supported by previous research.